kdb does not come up in SLES 9 (kernel 2.6)

[skd]

Hi,
thanks everybody for suggestions.
I switched to ttys10 and it worked.

-skd

--- Keith Owens <kaos at sgi.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 05:06:35 +0000 (GMT), 
> skd <saroj_d at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >Tried to compile a kernel with kdb support. The
> >machine came up with the new kernel, but when
> >pause/break key is pressed, keyboard light
> flickered
> >showing that it is entering into kdb. But the kdb
> >prompt did not come up although the machine got
> >temporarily frozen. I type go into the invisible
> kdb
> >and got the machine runnning again. I am using text
> >mode console.
> 
> SuSE redirect the console to another tty, usually
> ttys10.  Switching
> tty to see the console output requires that
> interrupts are working.  By
> definition, kdb disables interrupts to stop the OS
> from changing while
> it is being debugged.  Result - you cannot see the
> kdb output on SuSE.
> 
> Change your boot string to use console=tty instead
> of console=tty10.
> 
> 



		
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